A document issued by the carrier based on the bill of lading and other information; used to account for a shipment operationally, statistically, and financially. An Invoice.

A type of anaerobic digester that has a mechanical mixing system and where temperature and volume are controlled to maximize the anaerobic digestion process for biological waste treatment, methane production, and odor control.

Transportation from one city to another as differentiated from local switching service.

The temperature that a system is designed to maintain (inside) or operate against (outside) under the most extreme conditions.

Bank of England. The central bank of the United Kingdom, similar to the Federal reserve in the United States and.

The total amount of water transferred to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration.

Laying up of a vessel, in a dock, for repairs.

A pricing model devised by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes in 1973.

A plot of r urrent density versus electrode potential for a specific electrode-electrolyte combination.

The ability of a metal to absorb energy and deform plastically before fracturing.

A term used to describe short and long-term affects on the Earth's climate as a result of human activities such as fossil fuel combustion and vegetation clearing and burning.

Methods used by companies to try to ensure their customers settle their accounts within the agreed.

See intergranular corrosion.

To put in place of another; i.e., when an insurance company pays a claim it is placed in the same position as the payee with regard to any rights against others.

A device for computing certain psychrometric data, usually the dew point and the relative humidity, from known values of the dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperatures and the atmospheric pressure. One type is the circular slide-rule form and, like the psychromet ...

A hygrometer in which the rotation of the hygrometric element is a function of humidity.

A note, issued to a person or company when goods are returned by them, which cancels the original.

Condition that exists when the air, gas, or fluid normally passing through an element is being shunted around the element.

Putting cargo into a container.

A takeover bid by one company for another, in which the directors of the target company oppose.